You know, when these New Negroes have their convention--that is going to be the chairman of the Committee on Unending Agitation. R...ace, race, race!... Damn, even the N double A C P takes a holiday sometimes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good ...government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is twenty-eight years ago to-day since the first woman's rights convention ever held assembled in the Wesleyan chapel at Seneca... Falls, N.Y. Could we have foreseen, when we called that convention, the ridicule, persecution, and misrepresentation that the demand for woman's political, religious and social equality would involve; the long, weary years of waiting and hoping without success; I fear we should not have had the courage and conscience to begin such a protracted struggle, nor the faith and hope to continue the work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and... to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, but ...intellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of e...xistence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe--like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »